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How to Avoid a Prospie Takeover

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Kenyon chapter.


Something has been cropping up with the flowers on Middle Path—prospies, prospies EVERYWHERE. We’re a friendly campus, and I think most of us actually enjoy talking to younger visitors about Kenyon. However, there are some times, like when you’re studying for comps (what? I am not studying for comps! I am not complaining about it all the time!) that you really need that extra thirty minutes for yourself instead of talking about the Freshman quad dorm situation. And so, I give you a master gameplan for avoiding prospies:

1. Pretend you’re a prospie too. If you look too old, pretend you’re visiting your BFF4L. 

2. Look at your phone, throw on an expression of intense concern/anger/delight and have a pretend conversation.

3. Talk loudly with your friends about your crazy night of debauchery on Wednesday.

4. While reading on/around Middle Path, grab a copy of The Inferno and act pretentious.

5. Run down the Hill.

Caroline Black is a senior Drama major at Kenyon College. In addition to co-founding and writing for her school's HC branch, Caroline is co-president of Beer and Sex, Kenyon's student-run freshman orientation program (and she enjoys making jokes about that title as much as you do). When she's not doing hippy-dippy acting warm-ups or volunteering with her service organization, The Archon Society, Caroline enjoys watching "Parks and Recreation" and dismaying her friends with terrible puns.